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XXXTENTACION

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2988453, XXXTENTACION
Posted by Basaglia, Wed Dec-31-69 07:00 PM

Been seeing him everywhere and finally gave him a chance. I voted Male Azealia Banks. Too bad. He better than 95% of niggas in the game.

Poll question: XXXTENTACION

Poll result (30 votes)
Wack	(12 votes)	Vote
Not Wack	(2 votes)	Vote
The Male Azealia Banks. A preternaturally talented kid that will always get in his own way.	(3 votes)	Vote
Too Wierd	(0 votes)	Vote
Next Big Thing	(1 votes)	Vote
I'm Old	(12 votes)	Vote

2988455, Purple like a mug. Never of him before this post.
Posted by mrhood75, Sun Apr-16-17 06:57 PM

Then I looked him up on YouTube. Definitely not for me.

2988458, What else is good besides Look at Me?
Posted by theeraser, Sun Apr-16-17 07:16 PM

2988459, Rare/Vice City/Riot/SippingTeaInYoHood/Let's Pretend We're Numb
Posted by Basaglia, Sun Apr-16-17 07:25 PM

I even like some of slow shit, like I Don't Wanna Do This Anymore.

2988517, Thanks, been looping a few of these like crazy...i'm voting NBT
Posted by theeraser, Mon Apr-17-17 05:44 PM

2988477, I like his angry turn-up. Not sure why he's popping though
Posted by BigReg, Mon Apr-17-17 08:11 AM

>
>Been seeing him everywhere and finally gave him a chance. I
>voted Male Azealia Banks. Too bad. He better than 95% of
>niggas in the game.

The hype seems a bit too much considering his talent base.

Unlike Ms.Banks who I think is talented as fuck but is such an asshole I was chopping up with a DJ this weekend and was like she's hesitant to play her tracks because she doesn't know how the crowd is going to react, LOL.

2988478, His early shit, like Vice City, showed he has talent.
Posted by Basaglia, Mon Apr-17-17 08:36 AM

he was like 15/16 when he did that. He can rap. The more experiemental shit with punk, ambient, rock, emo, r&b, etc. is where the hype came in. He's pretty versatile.

2988479, unless Im mistaken, you're not into Kendrick
Posted by atruhead, Mon Apr-17-17 08:41 AM

but this is your guy?

2988497, Kendrick is great, but I'm not "into" him. So, yeah.
Posted by Basaglia, Mon Apr-17-17 01:15 PM

XXX ain't my guy, but he made an impression. Sometimes you just have an immediate positive reaction to an artist. It's the same way I felt about Banks.

2988483, Look At Me goes hard. Never heard anything else.
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Mon Apr-17-17 09:17 AM

he too problematic to get really big tho.

2994779, August 2017: The album is pretty good
Posted by BrooklynWHAT, Mon Aug-28-17 09:22 AM

Fuck Love a better Uzi song than anything from Luv Is Rage 2.

Revenge and Jocelyn good too.

2994804, RE: August 2017: The album is pretty good
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Tue Aug-29-17 02:39 AM

>Revenge and Jocelyn good too.

Everybody Dies In Their Nightmares is nice too

2988501, Beat his pregnant girl's ass though nah?
Posted by Tiger Woods, Mon Apr-17-17 02:08 PM

2988502, That's between them. Rick James tortured a chick for days.
Posted by Basaglia, Mon Apr-17-17 02:22 PM

2994765, well if rick james tortured a chick it's ok for him to beat his pregnant girl
Posted by makaveli, Sun Aug-27-17 06:20 PM

It's between them though so no biggie.

2994769, and what if it's not true? then what? you just move on, right?
Posted by Basaglia, Sun Aug-27-17 07:17 PM

2988515, I started to post about him last week....
Posted by rorschach, Mon Apr-17-17 05:33 PM

I like most of his music and I listen to it a lot in my gym playlist (along with Waka, Three 6, etc.). I like that he has a specific sound instead of sounding like everyone else out right now.

I'm a little bit too old for it content-wise (I'm 32). Musically, it's right down my alley since I like abrasive music (i.e. Death Grips)
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2988516, oh, he listens to a rack of death grips. you can hear that right away.
Posted by Basaglia, Mon Apr-17-17 05:35 PM

2994749, Tried to told y'all. Hope he don't fuck this up.
Posted by Basaglia, Sun Aug-27-17 09:57 AM

2994775, I like most of his shit that's on spotify
Posted by Mgmt, Mon Aug-28-17 12:14 AM

>
>Been seeing him everywhere and finally gave him a chance. I
>voted Male Azealia Banks. Too bad. He better than 95% of
>niggas in the game.

2994784, Nah... I'm not accepting applications for new rappers
Posted by TheRealBillyOcean, Mon Aug-28-17 10:24 AM

2994788, RE: XXXTENTACION
Posted by double 0, Mon Aug-28-17 12:33 PM

Definitely no what I expected..

He basically made a GOOD version of Cudi's rock emo album idea

2994789, I wasn't surprised. i dug in pretty deep on his soundcloud.
Posted by Basaglia, Mon Aug-28-17 12:51 PM

he listens to a LOT of music. he was pulling samples from indie bands to realy obscure R&B...he even sampled the playstation 2 intro on a track.

2994791, RE: I wasn't surprised. i dug in pretty deep on his soundcloud.
Posted by double 0, Mon Aug-28-17 02:32 PM

Yea I only heard Look At Me..

Cuz why would I listen to anyone named xxxtentacion... lol

But yea kids got something

2994800, Garrette's Revenge is my Joint!
Posted by Adwhizz, Mon Aug-28-17 08:04 PM

Haven't heard much beyond that.

2994896, It's been impossible to get that song out of my head
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Thu Aug-31-17 04:38 AM

not that I'm complaining

2994805, how do you even pronounce his name?
Posted by justin_scott, Tue Aug-29-17 03:31 AM

and wtf does it mean?

2994806, eks eks eks ten TAH see ohn
Posted by Boogie Stimuli, Tue Aug-29-17 03:38 AM

Nah I'm not kidding lol

I'll let him verify:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M7qB3WRwQA

2995110, RE: XXXTENTACION
Posted by Marbles, Tue Sep-05-17 09:31 AM

So the first time I heard about this cat was in this post. I'm old (40+) but I take an interest in hip-hop and the direction it's taking. I checked out "17" and it was absolutely not what I was expecting. It's not an instant classic or anything but it wasn't terrible by any means. His stuff came off more like the Weeknd than any rapper.

On Friday, I saw that he was doing a free show here at the Orpheum, which is small joint in Ybor City. They say that their capacity is 750 people. Ybor is a historical Cuban community that has an entertainment district that's been called a poor man's Bourbon Street. It has a lot of bars, restaurants, clubs, tattoo shops, breweries, etc. It's pretty eclectic.

I thought about going to the show but since it was free, I'd have to get there at 7:00 PM and probably wait around til midnight for him to come out to perform. No thanks.

However, I was in Ybor anyway watching the Michigan-Florida game and stayed for the FSU-Alabama game. At some point, I saw police lights down by the Orpheum. No big deal. There's been trouble in Ybor here & there so a police presence isn't weird.

I posted up outside on the patio at a spot to watch FSU-Bama. There was a police helicopter circling around overhead so I figured that whatever was going on down there must be bigger than I expected.

Apparently, this is what went down: http://www.cltampa.com/music/music-news/media-gallery/20974461/xxxtentacion-show-at-orpheum-cancelled-7th-partially-shut-down

Like I said, I'm old and probably very out of touch with who's hot and who's up & coming. Still, a response like this for this kid is really surprising to me.

2995321, fuck em (link)
Posted by Tiger Woods, Tue Sep-12-17 03:10 PM

http://uproxx.com/realtalk/xxxtentacion-abuse-response/2/

2995419, bruh...wait until you hear both sides. it's a whooooole thing
Posted by Basaglia, Wed Sep-13-17 08:49 PM